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Fixing red eye

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The Red Eye filter is demonstrated by Mike Rankin, along with several tips and best practices for fixing red eye problems in photos, including using a duplicate layer to work nondestructively, using the Hue-Saturation tool to remove color casts from pupils, painting with the Color mode to restore iris color, and using the Dodge-Burn tool to darken pupils.

- [Instructor] Let's wrap up our look…at working with filters…by seeing how to use the red eye removal filter.…And I'll also show some other tips…for removing red eye from photos with GIMP.…So, in our exercise file, we have this image…of a cute little baby, who, unfortunately,…has a serious case of red eye.…So, to fix this, we can use the red eye removal feature,…which is found under filters,…enhance,…red eye removal.…But before I select this, I need to do two things.…

One is a requirement of using the filter,…and the other, I consider a best practice…for dealing with red eye.…Like with all photo retouching,…a best practice is to not work destructively.…So we don't want to work directly on the base layer.…We always want to be able to go back to the original pixels,…if we need to.…So I'll start by duplicating the original layer,…and I'll zoom in on those eyes…by pressing the plus key on my keyboard.…And the second thing we need to do is…to make a selection of the pupils.…To do this, I'll take the ellipse select tool,…

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6/13/2017

GIMP is a popular open-source image editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux that has evolved to become a credible option for image editing. In this course, Mike Rankin shows how to use GIMP 2.8 to work with images. After he tours the GIMP interface and familiarizes you with the program's preferences and tools, he takes you through working with selections, layers, layer masks, and paths. He also explains how to adjust canvas and print size, use brushes to edit masks, work with color, retouch photos, work with filters and text, print GIMP documents, and export images for web and print.